Reflections

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Have you bored with borrowing books from libraries? Then, what about borrowing a person from a library to have a chat for 30 minutes? If you are in a multi-cultural environment and want to cop with cultural differences and would like to know more about different people, that might help, isn’t it? The Living Library is an innovative method designed to promote dialogue, reduce prejudices and encourage understanding.The main characteristics of the project are to be found in its simplicity and positive approach. In it’s initial form the Living Library is a mobile library set up as a space for dialogue and interaction. Visitors to the Living Library are given the opportunity to speak informally with “people on loan”; this latter group being extremely varied in age, sex and cultural background.

A group of youth including Tobias Rosenberg Jørgensen, Sune Bang, Asma Mouna, Dany Abergel, Philip Lipski Einstein, Christoffer Erichsen and Ronni Abergel from Copenhagen, Denmark are behind this novel idea.

Today is World No Tobacco Day. Here’s a poster I designed last year for a competition in my company.

Today is the 20th anniversary of the humble beginnings of a great idea. On 13th March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal on information management to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (popularly known as CERN, where the LHC experiment started last year) where he worked. While making this proposal, he might have never thought his ideas would have such a far reaching consequence in the history. Probably, WWW is the most influential invention of recent times, and it’s growing in every dimensions and the infinite possibilities are there to unearth.

Though the proposal submitted in 1989, www took off its wings in 1990 only. Read a nice article on the 20th annversary of the web in Scientific American.